(... is a kind of size ) size of the gap between two places

"the distance from New York to Chicago""he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"

(... are attributes of size) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

"a large city""set out for the big city""a large sum""a big (or large) barn""a large family""big businesses""a big expenditure""a large number of newspapers""a big group of scientists""large areas of the world"

Samples where size or its synonyms are used according to this definition

that's the size of the situation

she hates me, that's about the size of it

Synonyms for size in the sense of this definition

(size is a kind of ...) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

"the present international situation is dangerous""wondered how such a state of affairs had come about""eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"